Listening Tune-Ups

 

A Guide to Improve Listening Skills

CONTENTS

          
A Guide To Improve Listening Skills     

• Listening       
• What Affects Your Listening Process    
• Analyze Your Listening   
• Tips & Tactics for Active Listening  


Listening Activities to Promote Active Listening
    

• Tune in to Today’s Questions
• Listen for the Daily Clue    
• Classroom Activity for Listening Awareness  
• Suggested Classroom Practices to Create Good Listening Habits 
• Practice Summarizing 
• Listening Role-Play Outline   
• Telephone Message Sample Role-Play  
• Jot or Sketch    
• Bullet Format     
• Visualization Training     
     Sample Passages – Literary & Informational   

• Jot Notes As You Listen  
• Short Listening Passages to Practice Note Taking 
     The Olympics    
     Galileo
• Brainstorm Together – develop questions 
      Chart – Key Words in Questions
• Mini-Assessments  
     Activity I   – Shapes
     Activity  II – Words/Sentences
     Activity III – Math
     Activity IV – Facts/Details
                        Fiction/Nonfiction

•  Listening Activities for Various Content Areas   
     Geography
     Mathematics
     Fun with Words
• Recap Method    
• Success in School     
• Administering Classroom Listening Assessment    


Listening Passages (Easy-Challenging) with Follow-up Questions

PENGUINS                                                       
THE TOP OF THE WORLD                                     
THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE                    
ESTABLISHING MANHATTAN IN THE 1600’S           
WHY THE CHIPMUNK HAS BLACK STRIPES    
HELEN KELLER                            
HUGGABLE OR UNTOUCHABLE            
SAILING SPIRIT             
THE STORY OF WILLIAM TELL                  
NEITHER HERE NOR THERE               
SACAGAWEA


Answer Keys        

CD – Listening Passages (Easy-Challenging)
CD – Follow-up Questions for Listening Passages

 


 


Copyright 2008, Virginia Nolan
3rd Printing 2011
 
 
 

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